Installing a PixieBrix Pre-Release Build
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You use the same PixieBrix account for official releases and pre-release builds. If you do not already have an account, visit and connect a Google or Microsoft account
You must be logged into GitHub to download builds from GitHub (a free account is OK)
Find the latest build:
Click the build to open its detail page
At the bottom of the detail page, click on the build-production
artifact to download a zip. The zipped artifact is ~10mb, and can may take 10-30 seconds to download from GitHub's build servers
Unzip the release build to a location on your computer
Open the Chrome extensions screen: chrome://extensions/
When the PixieBrix extension loads for the first time, it will show an onboarding page. Click "Link Extension"
If you do not have a GitHub account, contact to receive a direct download link
Toggle Developer Mode (upper right) to ON
Click Load Unpacked and select the unzipped extension folder
A PixieBrix card will be added to the extensions page:
To verify that the extension has been linked to your PixieBrix account, visit . You should see a message with the version number you installed: